Yoshihiro Tatsumi

(b. 1935, Japan)

Yoshihiro Tatsumi is the initiator of the Japanese graphic novel, called the gekiga style ("dramatic pictures"). His comics deal with the human mind and condition, especially in the working class society, such as his 1956 thriller 'Black Blizzard', about two escaped convicts, and 'Goodbye', a story about occupied Japan. Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly has recently started to publish Tatsumi's works in annual anthologies, edited by Adrian Tomine. The first book was 'The Push Man', collecting his work from 1969.